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. Tempo
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
2. Zoology
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
3. Jovial
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
4. Polygon
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
5. Voracious
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► 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.