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. Guerrilla
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
2. Chronology
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► The arrangement of events in time
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Guru
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
4. Mutation
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
5. Toxin
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold