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. Levee
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Outrageous
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
3. Bandolier
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
4. Light-Year
► The arrangement of events in time
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
5. Tariff
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
