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. Jovial
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Outrageous
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The arrangement of events in time
3. Introspection
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
4. Light-Year
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Heritage
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Being without or almost without hope
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.