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. Introspection
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. Suffrage
► A proportional part or share.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
3. Quarantine
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Participle
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Typhoon
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
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.