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. Light-Year
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
2. Undulate
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Boycott
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
4. Recede
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Bizarre
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
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.