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. Aspire
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A proportional part or share.
2. Formidable
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
3. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
4. Recede
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Hologram
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
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.