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. Bamboozle
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
2. Hypocrisy
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
3. Jovial
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
4. Nocturnal
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Recede
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
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.