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. Cower
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
2. Accentuate
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Vertebrate
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
4. Technique
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
5. Typhoon
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► 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.