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. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. Deign
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Maneuver
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
4. Lichen
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
5. Vacillate
► The arrangement of events in time
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► 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.