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. Toxin
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
2. Inference
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Nebula
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
5. Mosaic
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.