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. Cower
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Bandolier
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Zoology
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
4. Impertinent
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
5. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
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.