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. Dialogue
► To condescend to give or grant
► Being without or almost without hope
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
2. Exult
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Camouflage
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
4. Technique
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Divulge
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
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.