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. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
2. Vaccine
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
3. Kilometer
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
4. Typhoon
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Plateau
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
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.