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. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Flourish
► Being without or almost without hope
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
3. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
4. Quota
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A proportional part or share.
5. Embargo
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.