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. Guru
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
2. Omnivore
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Nuisance
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
4. Eclectic
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
5. Quarantine
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
