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. Exult
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
2. Guru
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
3. Stereotype
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Sect
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Technique
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► 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.