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. Laconic
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Aspire
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Nocturnal
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Fallacy
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Technique
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
