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. Labyrinth
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
2. Repose
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
3. Inference
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
4. Protagonist
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The arrangement of events in time
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Toxin
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.