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. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Fallacy
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► The arrangement of events in time
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Phloem
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
4. Renegade
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Random
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
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.