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
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2. Tranquility
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Hologram
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
4. Tempo
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
5. Outrageous
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
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.