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. Pulverize
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
2. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► To condescend to give or grant
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
3. Participle
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
4. Vertebrate
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A proportional part or share.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
5. Deduction
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night