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. Cower
► A proportional part or share.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
2. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
4. Stereotype
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Outrageous
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► The arrangement of events in time
► 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.