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.
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. Vertebrate
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
2. Xylem
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
3. Pulverize
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
4. Tempo
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Divulge
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.