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
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
2. Immune
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
3. Technique
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
4. Commemorate
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
5. Guerrilla
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
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.