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. Vertebrate
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► The arrangement of events in time
2. Ultraviolet
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
3. Quarantine
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
4. Renegade
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
5. Tsunami
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
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.