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. Polygon
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
2. Levee
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
3. Omnivore
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Protagonist
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
