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. Parasite
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
2. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
3. Hieroglyphic
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Dialogue
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
5. Hypocrisy
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The arrangement of events in time
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.