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. Ozone
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
2. Virtuoso
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
4. Jaunty
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
5. Voracious
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
