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. Formidable
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The arrangement of events in time
2. Parasite
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
3. Typhoon
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Rainforest
► A proportional part or share.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
5. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
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.