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. Despondent
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Being without or almost without hope
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2. Rainforest
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Decorum
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Repose
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
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.