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
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
2. Flourish
► To condescend to give or grant
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
3. Guerrilla
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
4. Nocturnal
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Omnivore
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
