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. Dialogue
► A proportional part or share.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Antibody
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
3. Analogy
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Guerrilla
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
5. Mosaic
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
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.