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. Labyrinth
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
2. Marsupial
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
3. Heritage
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The arrangement of events in time
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
4. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
5. Phloem
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
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.