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. Maneuver
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Rainforest
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
3. Decorum
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
4. Guerrilla
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Outrageous
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
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.