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. Decorum
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Stereotype
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Technique
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Polygon
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Hieroglyphic
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
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.