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. Bamboozle
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
2. Mutation
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
3. Parasite
► The arrangement of events in time
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
4. Salmonella
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► To condescend to give or grant
5. Lichen
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► To condescend to give or grant
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,