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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. Wretched

► A proportional part or share.

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► A schedule of prices or fees.

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

2. Deduction

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

3. Despondent

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

► Being without or almost without hope

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

4. Camouflage

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

5. Ultraviolet

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Common Core State Standard
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.

WRANGLING

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

WRANGLING
DEFINITION: Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight. ►The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

WRANGLING

Words in the News Quiz5 Middle School Words

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words