TIE | The Los Angeles Times in Education

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. Boisterous

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

2. Silhouette

► A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

► Being without or almost without hope

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

3. Quarantine

► Being without or almost without hope

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

► Self-examination.

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

4. Exponent

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

5. Rainforest

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

► A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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.

REALLOCATE

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

REALLOCATE
DEFINITION: To change the way that something is given or shared between people, groups, or organizations.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: Carey said she would be “concerned with stocking the food pantries, but perhaps there is a better way to help for folks that had reallocate those funds somehow and then are either facing eviction or other things like that.” ►The Key West Citizen, 12/08/2025

REALLOCATE

Words in the News Quiz5 Middle School Words

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words