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. Jaunty
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
2. Labyrinth
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
3. Virtuoso
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
4. Heritage
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
5. Decorum
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
