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
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Metaphor
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
3. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The arrangement of events in time
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
4. Alliteration
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Jaunty
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
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.