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. Eclectic
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
2. Phloem
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Plateau
► Being without or almost without hope
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
4. Quota
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A proportional part or share.
5. Protagonist
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct