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. Random
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
2. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
3. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Vertebrate
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Boycott
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
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.