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. Metaphor
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
2. Chronology
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The arrangement of events in time
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Impertinent
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To condescend to give or grant
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
4. Commemorate
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Laconic
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
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.