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
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Tempo
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
3. Spectrum
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Being without or almost without hope
► To condescend to give or grant
4. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
5. Jovial
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
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.