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. Aspire
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
2. Yacht
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
3. Enthusiastic
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Typhoon
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
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.