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. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
2. Omnivore
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Zoology
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
4. Xylem
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Embargo
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
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.