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. Quandary
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To condescend to give or grant
2. Stereotype
► To condescend to give or grant
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
4. Light-Year
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
5. Enthusiastic
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
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.