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. Camouflage
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
2. Tranquility
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Rainforest
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
5. Alliteration
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
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.