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. Zoology
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Being without or almost without hope
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Boycott
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Jaunty
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
5. Unanimous
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night