Resources for Teachers and Students

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 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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. Vertebrate

Having a backbone or spinal column.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


2. Camouflage

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


3. Parasite

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.


4. Analogy

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


5. Decorum

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions