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. Solstice
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
2. Guerrilla
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
3. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Commemorate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Technique
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
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.