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. Ellipse
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Technique
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
3. Typhoon
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
4. Nocturnal
► To condescend to give or grant
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Immune
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
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.