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. Gargoyle
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
2. Maneuver
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Typhoon
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
4. Embargo
► To condescend to give or grant
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Delegate
► The arrangement of events in time
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.