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. Guerrilla
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Parasite
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
3. Deign
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To condescend to give or grant
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
4. Wretched
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Vacillate
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A proportional part or share.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
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.