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. Formidable
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
2. Fallacy
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
3. Bandolier
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Delegate
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Chronology
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The arrangement of events in time
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.