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. Enthusiastic
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
2. Hypocrisy
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Virtuoso
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
4. Levee
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
5. Vaccine
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
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.