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. Renaissance
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
2. Embargo
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
3. Hypocrisy
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Exponent
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Ultraviolet
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
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.