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
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Vacillate
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Rainforest
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A proportional part or share.
4. Outrageous
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
5. Wretched
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
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.