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
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
2. Jaunty
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
3. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Silhouette
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Being without or almost without hope
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Nocturnal
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
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.