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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Hieroglyphic
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Quarantine
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
3. Enthusiastic
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
4. Polygon
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► The arrangement of events in time
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Random
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
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