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. Suffrage
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Fallacy
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
3. Salmonella
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Jaunty
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
5. Stereotype
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
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.