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. Sect
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Xylem
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
3. Divulge
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
4. Kilometer
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
5. Commemorate
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
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.