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. Renegade
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
2. Ozone
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Camouflage
► The arrangement of events in time
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Typhoon
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Suffrage
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
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.