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. Virtuoso
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Being without or almost without hope
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
2. Jovial
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
3. Tsunami
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
4. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To condescend to give or grant
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Quarantine
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.