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. Rainforest
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
3. Light-Year
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Unanimous
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The arrangement of events in time
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
5. Introspection
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.