Generate your own quiz 

Select a grade level

 Elementary
 Middle School
 High School

Select a quiz type

 By words    By Definitions

How many questions?

 5  10  15  20 Questions



 

Common Core State Standard
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.
This Week's Word In The News 

LITIGANT

DEFINITION:
Someone involved in a lawsuit.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
With the widespread and transformative use of artificial intelligence — particularly generative AI — in daily life, federal and state courts in New Mexico are finding self-represented litigants and some attorneys filing legal cases containing false or misleading information.
The Albuquerque Journal, 04/13/2026

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. Ozone

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

To cringe in fear

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


2. Yacht

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


3. Silhouette

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.


4. Tranquility

Being without or almost without hope

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


5. Tumult

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A schedule of prices or fees.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.


Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions