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. Flourish
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
2. Polygon
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
3. Exult
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
4. Commemorate
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
