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. Mosaic
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
2. Aspire
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
3. Ozone
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Toxin
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
5. Solstice
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.