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. Metaphor
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
2. Quandary
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► The arrangement of events in time
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Nuisance
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
4. Plateau
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.