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. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Boisterous
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
3. Metaphor
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
4. Jaunty
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
5. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► 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.