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. Virtuoso
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
2. Outrageous
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
3. Dialogue
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
4. Repose
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
5. Polygon
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
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.