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. Levee
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
2. Nuisance
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
3. Plateau
► The arrangement of events in time
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
4. Formidable
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Mutation
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To condescend to give or grant
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
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.