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. Bizarre
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
2. Despondent
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Being without or almost without hope
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Tundra
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Pulverize
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
