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. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
2. Tsunami
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
3. Bamboozle
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Boisterous
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
5. Typhoon
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
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.