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. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
2. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Repose
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Being without or almost without hope
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
4. Light-Year
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
5. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.