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. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A schedule of prices or fees.
2. Solstice
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
3. Decorum
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
4. Mutation
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. Wretched
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
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.