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. Fallacy
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
2. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Laconic
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Marsupial
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
