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. Camouflage
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
2. Metaphor
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
3. Tumult
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Technique
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
5. Hologram
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
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.