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. Guru
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
2. Participle
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
3. Undulate
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Stereotype
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Eclectic
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
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.