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
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Ellipse
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
3. Ultraviolet
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Immune
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
5. Chronology
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► The arrangement of events in time
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.