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. Chronology
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The arrangement of events in time
2. Cower
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Exult
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Bizarre
► Being without or almost without hope
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► 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.