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. Hologram
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
2. Levee
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Wretched
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
4. Malignant
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A proportional part or share.
5. Decorum
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
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.