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. Maneuver
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Camouflage
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
3. Decorum
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
4. Exult
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Analogy
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
