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. Marsupial
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
2. Yacht
► Being without or almost without hope
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A proportional part or share.
3. Bamboozle
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Renegade
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
5. Dialogue
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
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.