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. Pulverize
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
2. Boisterous
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Alliteration
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
5. Cower
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
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.