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
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The arrangement of events in time
2. Divulge
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
3. Fallacy
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
4. Jaunty
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Vertebrate
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
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.