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. Ultraviolet
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
2. Light-Year
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
3. Renegade
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
4. Suffrage
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
5. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
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.