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. Levee
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
2. Aspire
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
4. Hieroglyphic
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Guru
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation