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. Solstice
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
2. Cower
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
3. Aspire
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
4. Bamboozle
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
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.