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
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
2. Immune
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
5. Light-Year
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
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.