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. Nuisance
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Despondent
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Being without or almost without hope
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Voracious
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Hypocrisy
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Yacht
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
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.