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. Tsunami
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Mutation
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Formidable
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
5. Divulge
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
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.