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. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
2. Labyrinth
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
3. Exult
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Bamboozle
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
5. Vaccine
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
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.