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. Quarantine
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
2. Guru
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To condescend to give or grant
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
3. Tempo
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
4. Typhoon
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
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.