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. Technique
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
2. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
3. Laconic
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
4. Wretched
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Boycott
► To condescend to give or grant
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
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.