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. Repose
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
2. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Tariff
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Omnivore
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
5. Unanimous
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.