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. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
2. Light-Year
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Technique
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
4. Pulverize
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
5. Stereotype
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.