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. Random
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
2. Outrageous
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
3. Aspire
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Ozone
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Pulverize
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
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.