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. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
2. Nebula
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Kilometer
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
5. Commemorate
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
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.