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. Dialogue
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
2. Chronology
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The arrangement of events in time
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
3. Lichen
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Being without or almost without hope
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
4. Jaunty
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
5. Exult
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
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.