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. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
2. Vertebrate
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
3. Protagonist
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
4. Phloem
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Spectrum
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
