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. Repose
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To condescend to give or grant
2. Plateau
► To condescend to give or grant
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
3. Enthusiastic
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
4. Hologram
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
5. Yacht
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
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.