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. Tempo
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
2. Spectrum
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
3. Tundra
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Hieroglyphic
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Despondent
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Being without or almost without hope
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► 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.