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. Hieroglyphic
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. Quota
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A proportional part or share.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
3. Marsupial
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Virtuoso
► The arrangement of events in time
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
5. Fallacy
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
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.