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. Toxin
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
2. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Participle
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
4. Renegade
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Tempo
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
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.