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. Random
► Being without or almost without hope
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
2. Ozone
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Stereotype
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Protagonist
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
5. Mutation
► The arrangement of events in time
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.