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. Participle
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
2. Nebula
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
3. Polygon
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
4. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To condescend to give or grant
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Malignant
► The arrangement of events in time
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
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.