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. Zoology
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
2. Accentuate
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Sacrifice
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
4. Wretched
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Tempo
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
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.