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. Malignant
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
3. Commemorate
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Tranquility
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Polygon
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
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.