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. Jovial
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
2. Inference
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
3. Sacrifice
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Omnivore
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Being without or almost without hope
5. Accentuate
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.