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. Renegade
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Tumult
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The arrangement of events in time
3. Quarantine
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
4. Immune
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
5. Introspection
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
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.