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. Analogy
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Decorum
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
3. Silhouette
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Flourish
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Aspire
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
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.