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. Camouflage
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Technique
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
3. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Laconic
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
5. Eclectic
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
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.