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. Tariff
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
2. Solstice
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Heritage
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
4. Toxin
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
5. Deign
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To condescend to give or grant
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
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.