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
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
2. Nebula
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
3. Guerrilla
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
4. Labyrinth
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Toxin
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
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.