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. Suffrage
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Being without or almost without hope
2. Gargoyle
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
3. Chronology
► The arrangement of events in time
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
4. Commemorate
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Toxin
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
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.