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. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
2. Guerrilla
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
3. Typhoon
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
4. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
5. Strategy
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.