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. Spectrum
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
2. Toxin
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
3. Repose
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
4. Xylem
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
5. Solstice
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
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