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. Tumult
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Ozone
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
3. Tempo
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
4. Metaphor
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Plateau
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
