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. Light-Year
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
2. Xylem
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A proportional part or share.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Solstice
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
4. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Kilometer
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
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.