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. Sect
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Kilometer
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
4. Polygon
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Being without or almost without hope
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.