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. Eclectic
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
2. Levee
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
3. Despondent
► Being without or almost without hope
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
4. Strategy
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Malignant
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► 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.