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. Repose
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
2. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
3. Enthusiastic
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
4. Nebula
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
5. Embargo
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
