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. Undulate
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
2. Suffrage
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Embargo
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
4. Renegade
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Repose
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► 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.