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. Vacillate
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
2. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The arrangement of events in time
3. Strategy
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
4. Silhouette
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
5. Nebula
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
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.