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. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
2. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
3. Random
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
4. Ellipse
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To condescend to give or grant
5. Deduction
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
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.