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. Yacht
► Being without or almost without hope
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
2. Light-Year
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Vaccine
► To condescend to give or grant
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Exult
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
5. Xylem
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
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.