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. Virtuoso
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
2. Metaphor
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
3. Vaccine
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
4. Marsupial
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
5. Zoology
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.