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. Xylem
► Being without or almost without hope
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Eclectic
► A proportional part or share.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Lichen
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. Technique
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
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.