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. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To condescend to give or grant
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
2. Participle
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
3. Flourish
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
4. Jaunty
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
5. Aspire
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
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.