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. Jovial
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
2. Camouflage
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
3. Pulverize
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
5. Malignant
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
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.