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. Solstice
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
2. Flourish
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
3. Exult
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Mosaic
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Repose
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
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.