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. Tempo
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
2. Typhoon
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
3. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Decorum
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A schedule of prices or fees.