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. Alliteration
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Guerrilla
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Polygon
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
4. Camouflage
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Guru
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A schedule of prices or fees.