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. Rainforest
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Marsupial
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
3. Mutation
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
4. Aspire
► A proportional part or share.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
5. Renaissance
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
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.