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. Decorum
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Dialogue
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Flourish
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
5. Plateau
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
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.