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. Silhouette
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Random
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Recede
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
4. Light-Year
► The arrangement of events in time
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
5. Hypocrisy
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
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.