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. Guerrilla
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A proportional part or share.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
2. Mosaic
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
3. Tranquility
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
4. Eclectic
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Wretched
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
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.