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. Marsupial
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
2. Hypocrisy
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Outrageous
► The arrangement of events in time
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
4. Vacillate
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Deign
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To condescend to give or grant
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
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.