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. Kilometer
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Participle
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
3. Toxin
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
4. Jaunty
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
5. Virtuoso
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation