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. Typhoon
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Tsunami
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Heritage
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
4. Decorum
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
5. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
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.