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. Strategy
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
2. Levee
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
3. Metaphor
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
4. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Vacillate
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
