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. Maneuver
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Cower
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Bamboozle
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
4. Nocturnal
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Eclectic
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.