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. Voracious
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Suffrage
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Virtuoso
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
4. Vaccine
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► 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.