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. Hypocrisy
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
2. Mutation
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
3. Suffrage
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
4. Renaissance
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Random
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
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.