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 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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. Aspire

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


2. Toxin

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

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


3. Camouflage

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

A schedule of prices or fees.

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


4. Divulge

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

To proclaim publicly

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation


5. Guru

Self-examination.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

The arrangement of events in time


Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions