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. Flourish
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Accentuate
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Levee
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
4. Alliteration
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To condescend to give or grant
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
5. Tumult
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
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.