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. Random
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
2. Typhoon
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
3. Protagonist
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Aspire
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
