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. Enthusiastic
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
2. Sect
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
3. Polygon
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
4. Dialogue
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Xylem
► The arrangement of events in time
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
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.