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. Sacrifice
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
2. Embargo
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Being without or almost without hope
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
3. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
4. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Malignant
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
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.