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. Inference
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
2. Zoology
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Bandolier
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
4. Bizarre
► Being without or almost without hope
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
5. Embargo
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► 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.