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. Accentuate
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
3. Stereotype
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Analogy
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
5. Jaunty
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Being without or almost without hope
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