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
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Hieroglyphic
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
3. Deduction
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► To condescend to give or grant
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Vertebrate
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
5. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
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.