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. Eclectic
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
2. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To condescend to give or grant
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
3. Vaccine
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Despondent
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Being without or almost without hope
5. Pulverize
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► 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.