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. Cower
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
2. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
4. Phloem
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Virtuoso
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.