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. Salmonella
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
2. Commemorate
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
3. Quarantine
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Quandary
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
5. Hologram
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).