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. Tumult
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2. Accentuate
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Plateau
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
4. Decorum
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
5. Jovial
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
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.