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. Nebula
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Dialogue
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
3. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
4. Maneuver
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A proportional part or share.
5. Stereotype
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
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.