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. Labyrinth
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Strategy
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Maneuver
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Renaissance
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
5. Flourish
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A proportional part or share.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
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.