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. Marsupial
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To condescend to give or grant
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
2. Renaissance
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
3. Malignant
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Ellipse
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
5. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
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.