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. Quarantine
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
2. Random
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A proportional part or share.
3. Analogy
► A proportional part or share.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Camouflage
► To condescend to give or grant
► A schedule of prices or fees.
5. Despondent
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Being without or almost without hope
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.