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. Accentuate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To condescend to give or grant
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Gargoyle
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
3. Commemorate
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Yacht
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
5. Voracious
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
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.