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. Strategy
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Being without or almost without hope
2. Ultraviolet
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Toxin
► A proportional part or share.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
4. Typhoon
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
5. Malignant
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► 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.