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. Plateau
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
2. Bamboozle
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
3. Accentuate
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
4. Virtuoso
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
5. Inference
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.