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. Boisterous
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Ozone
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
3. Symbiosis
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Sacrifice
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Exponent
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
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.