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. Lichen
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
2. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
3. Deduction
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Tsunami
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Camouflage
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
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.