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
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Divulge
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
3. Typhoon
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
4. Salmonella
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Omnivore
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
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.