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. Pulverize
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
2. Phloem
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
4. Maneuver
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
5. Dialogue
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
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.