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. Nuisance
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
2. Phloem
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Immune
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Tsunami
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Zoology
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
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.