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
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
2. Flourish
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
3. Unanimous
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
5. Malignant
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
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.