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. Decorum
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
2. Divulge
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
3. Omnivore
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
4. Vertebrate
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► The arrangement of events in time
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
5. Virtuoso
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► 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.