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
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
2. Yacht
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Guru
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Renegade
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A proportional part or share.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
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.