Generate your own quiz 

Select a grade level

 Elementary
 Middle School
 High School

Select a quiz type

 By words    By Definitions

How many questions?

 5  10  15  20 Questions



 

Common Core State Standard
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.
This Week's Word In The News 

BOON

DEFINITION:
A thing that is helpful or beneficial.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A Miami World’s Fair would potentially result in a big tourism boon for the state and region, including the Florida Keys.
The Key West Citizen, 01/26/2026

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. Flourish

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy


2. Tumult

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

Being without or almost without hope

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


3. Hieroglyphic

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.


4. Immune

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


5. Marsupial

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.


Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions