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. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
2. Light-Year
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Chronology
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Technique
► Being without or almost without hope
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
5. Renaissance
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
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.