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. Analogy
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Hypocrisy
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To condescend to give or grant
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Sacrifice
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
4. Mosaic
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Nuisance
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
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.