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. Enthusiastic
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
2. Antibody
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
3. Sacrifice
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
4. Levee
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
5. Fallacy
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
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.