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. Light-Year
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
2. Cower
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
3. Silhouette
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
4. Virtuoso
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
5. Renaissance
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
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.