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. Flourish

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

2. Hologram

► A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

► Being without or almost without hope

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

3. Tundra

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

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

► To cringe in fear

4. Bamboozle

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

5. Levee

► Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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