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. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Being without or almost without hope
2. Maneuver
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Zoology
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
4. Ozone
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
5. Alliteration
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
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.