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. Renegade
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
2. Renaissance
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Kilometer
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A proportional part or share.
4. Malignant
► A proportional part or share.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
5. Jaunty
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
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.