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. Despondent
► Being without or almost without hope
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
2. Levee
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
3. Rainforest
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
4. Renaissance
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Gargoyle
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
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.