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. Solstice
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
2. Vaccine
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Sacrifice
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Bamboozle
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
5. Omnivore
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.