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. Salmonella
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Wretched
► To condescend to give or grant
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
3. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Fallacy
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
5. Repose
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
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.