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. Exponent
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
2. Tariff
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
3. Despondent
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Bizarre
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
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.