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. Participle
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
2. Plateau
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
3. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Bamboozle
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Voracious
► The arrangement of events in time
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm