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. Stereotype
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. Quarantine
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
3. Jovial
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
4. Vaccine
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
5. Vacillate
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
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.