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. Introspection
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
2. Light-Year
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A proportional part or share.
4. Renegade
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
5. Random
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
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.