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. Sacrifice
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
2. Metaphor
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Marsupial
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
4. Introspection
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Tsunami
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
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.