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. Plateau
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
2. Labyrinth
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
3. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
4. Impertinent
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Laconic
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► 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.