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 closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Wretched
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
3. Formidable
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Metaphor
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Hieroglyphic
► The arrangement of events in time
