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. Light-Year
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To condescend to give or grant
2. Rainforest
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Omnivore
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Quandary
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
5. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
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.