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
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
2. Jovial
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
3. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A proportional part or share.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
4. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Typhoon
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
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.