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. Camouflage
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Levee
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
4. Yacht
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
5. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
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.