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. Toxin
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2. Light-Year
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
3. Repose
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
4. Pulverize
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Decorum
► Being without or almost without hope
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
