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. Aspire
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Tariff
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Malignant
► The arrangement of events in time
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Renaissance
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Metaphor
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
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.