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. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Strategy
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
3. Renaissance
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
4. Bamboozle
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
5. Quarantine
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The arrangement of events in time
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.