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. Chronology
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The arrangement of events in time
2. Ultraviolet
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
3. Embargo
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
4. Inference
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
5. Levee
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To condescend to give or grant
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
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.