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. Introspection
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
2. Polygon
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Flourish
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
4. Typhoon
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
5. Metaphor
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
