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. Bamboozle
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
2. Wretched
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
3. Lichen
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Bizarre
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
5. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
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.