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. Hologram
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Antibody
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
3. Typhoon
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A proportional part or share.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
4. Quarantine
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
5. Hieroglyphic
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
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.