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
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Recede
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
3. Guerrilla
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
4. Voracious
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A proportional part or share.
5. Technique
► A proportional part or share.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
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.