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 closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Quarantine
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
3. Recede
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
4. Sacrifice
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Vertebrate
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
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.