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. Camouflage
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A proportional part or share.
2. Vertebrate
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
3. Vacillate
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Plateau
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
5. Quarantine
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
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.