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. Gargoyle
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. Dialogue
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
3. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
4. Quarantine
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
5. Aspire
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
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.