Newspapers in Education

Lessons:

K-4

5-8

9-12

Geography in the News Quiz

Cartoons for the Classroom

Front Page Talking Points

Words in the News Quiz

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Middle School Quiz
Words in the News

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. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Introspection
Polygon
Voracious
Plateau

2. A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Protagonist
Mutation
Vaccine
Yacht

3. A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

Sect
Eclectic
Strategy
Toxin

4. The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Camouflage
Nebula
Ellipse
Wretched

5. To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Dialogue
Flourish
Deign
Alliteration

THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS

FIASCO
DEFINITION: A complete failure, especially one that is ignominious or humiliating.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: A former state official who played a major role in the state's biggest privatization fiasco is now making money trying to help Texas fix the problems that resulted. Dallas Morning News, 03/15/2010