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
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
2. Protagonist
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
3. Divulge
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Gargoyle
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
5. Labyrinth
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
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.