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. Formidable
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
2. Tundra
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To condescend to give or grant
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Dialogue
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
4. Malignant
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
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.