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. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
2. Pulverize
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
3. Toxin
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
4. Formidable
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A proportional part or share.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.