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. Accentuate
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Inference
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
3. Formidable
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
5. Strategy
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
