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. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A proportional part or share.
2. Malignant
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Nuisance
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
5. Polygon
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
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.