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. Phloem
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
2. Ozone
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
4. Alliteration
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
5. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► To condescend to give or grant
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.