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. Chronology
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The arrangement of events in time
2. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Malignant
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Tumult
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
5. Guerrilla
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
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.