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. Jaunty
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Vacillate
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
3. Introspection
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
4. Embargo
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Sacrifice
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
