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. Commemorate
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
2. Phloem
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
3. Vaccine
► The arrangement of events in time
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
4. Delegate
► To condescend to give or grant
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
5. Polygon
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A proportional part or share.
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.