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. Salmonella
► To condescend to give or grant
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
2. Tsunami
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
4. Divulge
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
5. Formidable
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony