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. Polygon
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Pulverize
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
3. Renaissance
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Laconic
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Being without or almost without hope
5. Exult
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
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.