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. Labyrinth
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
2. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
3. Jovial
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
4. Nuisance
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
5. Accentuate
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
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.