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. Suffrage
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
2. Boycott
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
3. Embargo
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Polygon
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Renegade
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
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.