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. Decorum
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Renegade
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The arrangement of events in time
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
3. Aspire
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
4. Repose
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Omnivore
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
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.