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. Guerrilla
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Undulate
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
3. Divulge
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
4. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
5. Hypocrisy
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
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.