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. Undulate
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
2. Vacillate
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
4. Tsunami
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
5. Tempo
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
