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
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
2. Hieroglyphic
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► 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.
3. Vacillate
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Quota
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A proportional part or share.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
5. Mosaic
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.