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. Impertinent
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
2. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The arrangement of events in time
3. Aspire
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
4. Tsunami
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
5. Technique
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
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.