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. Hieroglyphic
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
2. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
3. Boisterous
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
4. Dialogue
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
5. Vacillate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
