Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words
Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
Then see if you can find the word in your newspaper -- the print edition, the website or the digital edition and copy the sentence for context. NOTE: High School words are much harder to find!
1. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A proportional part or share.
2. Jaunty
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
3. Guru
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
5. Recede
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
LS.CCS.4/5/6 Grades 3-12: Students are asked to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words through multiple choice vocabulary quizzes. Quizzes are designed to help students demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in words, acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words, and gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to its overall meaning or function in a sentence.