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. Undulate
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
2. Light-Year
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Virtuoso
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Xylem
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
5. Exult
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A proportional part or share.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► An embankment built to prevent flooding