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. Zoology
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Kilometer
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Quandary
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
4. Yacht
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Laconic
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
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.