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. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
2. Quota
► A proportional part or share.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Immune
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Aspire
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Repose
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► To condescend to give or grant
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
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.