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. Jaunty
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
2. Flourish
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
3. Typhoon
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
4. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
5. Introspection
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Being without or almost without hope
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
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.