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. Silhouette
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
2. Impertinent
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Alliteration
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To condescend to give or grant
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
4. Guru
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
5. Typhoon
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
