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. Flourish
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Strategy
► A proportional part or share.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Tsunami
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Recede
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
5. Divulge
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
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.