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. Stereotype
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. Unanimous
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Levee
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
4. Salmonella
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
5. Metaphor
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
