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. Tsunami
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
2. Maneuver
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
3. Vacillate
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
4. Undulate
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
5. Recede
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
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.