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. Formidable
► The arrangement of events in time
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
2. Renegade
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Guru
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A proportional part or share.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
4. Strategy
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
5. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
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.