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. Embargo
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
2. Antibody
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
3. Heritage
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
4. Enthusiastic
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
5. Mutation
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.