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. Ellipse
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
3. Outrageous
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
4. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Being without or almost without hope
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
5. Chronology
► The arrangement of events in time
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
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