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. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
2. Boycott
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
3. Divulge
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
5. Polygon
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► The arrangement of events in time
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.