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. Virtuoso
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
2. Vertebrate
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
3. Introspection
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Lichen
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
5. Rainforest
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
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.