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. Guerrilla
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
2. Jaunty
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
3. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
4. Vertebrate
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Sect
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
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.