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. Formidable
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
2. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Malignant
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Deign
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To condescend to give or grant
5. Typhoon
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
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.