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. Impertinent
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
2. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
3. Eclectic
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Plateau
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
5. Lichen
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,