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. Aspire
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
2. Hypocrisy
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Guerrilla
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
4. Deduction
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Divulge
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
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.