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. Voracious
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
2. Kilometer
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
3. Inference
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
4. Vaccine
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
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.