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. Immune
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
2. Zoology
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Fallacy
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
4. Typhoon
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
5. Hologram
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
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.