Generate your own quiz 

Select a grade level

 Elementary
 Middle School
 High School

Select a quiz type

 By words    By Definitions

How many questions?

 5  10  15  20 Questions



 

Common Core State Standard
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.
This Week's Word In The News 

LITIGANT

DEFINITION:
Someone involved in a lawsuit.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
With the widespread and transformative use of artificial intelligence — particularly generative AI — in daily life, federal and state courts in New Mexico are finding self-represented litigants and some attorneys filing legal cases containing false or misleading information.
The Albuquerque Journal, 04/13/2026

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. Pulverize

To condescend to give or grant

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.


2. Outrageous

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Having a backbone or spinal column.


3. Exult

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


4. Formidable

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Self-examination.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


5. Vacillate

The arrangement of events in time

Being without or almost without hope

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.


Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions