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. Cower
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Embargo
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Eclectic
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
4. Outrageous
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
5. Deduction
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
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.