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. Quarantine
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
2. Suffrage
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
3. Polygon
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Fallacy
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
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.