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. Technique
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Vacillate
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Rainforest
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
4. Maneuver
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
5. Solstice
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
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.