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. Kilometer
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
2. Yacht
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Repose
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
4. Solstice
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Spectrum
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.