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. Strategy
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
2. Nocturnal
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Formidable
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Embargo
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Phloem
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
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.