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. Deign
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To condescend to give or grant
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Analogy
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
3. Guerrilla
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
4. Quota
► A proportional part or share.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Recede
► Being without or almost without hope
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
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.