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. Nocturnal
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
2. Mosaic
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
3. Symbiosis
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
4. Nuisance
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Flourish
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
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.