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. Jaunty
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
2. Ozone
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Nocturnal
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
4. Random
► Being without or almost without hope
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
5. Marsupial
► To condescend to give or grant
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
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.