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. Boisterous
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Cower
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Spectrum
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
4. Nocturnal
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Hologram
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
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.