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. Commemorate
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
2. Random
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Accentuate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Phloem
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
5. Sect
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
