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
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Marsupial
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
3. Gargoyle
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
5. Deign
► To condescend to give or grant
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A proportional part or share.
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.