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. Boycott
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
2. Nebula
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
3. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Ozone
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Quandary
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
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.