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. Bamboozle
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
2. Undulate
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
3. Pulverize
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A proportional part or share.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
4. Rainforest
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Ellipse
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
