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. Commemorate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
2. Fallacy
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
3. Random
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To condescend to give or grant
4. Formidable
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Pulverize
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.