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. Rainforest
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. Flourish
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
3. Deduction
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
4. Sect
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Tsunami
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
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.