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. Plateau
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
2. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
4. Quota
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A proportional part or share.
5. Ultraviolet
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
