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. Accentuate
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
2. Stereotype
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Jaunty
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
4. Tranquility
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
5. Technique
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
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.