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. Fallacy
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
2. Eclectic
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
4. Flourish
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
5. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
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.