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. Cower
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
2. Mutation
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A proportional part or share.
3. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
4. Random
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Fallacy
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
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.