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. Light-Year
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
2. Wretched
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Antibody
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
5. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
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.