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. Light-Year
► To condescend to give or grant
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A proportional part or share.
2. Bizarre
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
4. Nuisance
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Pulverize
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.