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. Despondent
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Being without or almost without hope
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
2. Introspection
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
3. Inference
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
5. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
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.