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. Participle
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
2. Polygon
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
3. Marsupial
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
4. Eclectic
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
5. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A proportional part or share.
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.