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. Virtuoso
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► The arrangement of events in time
2. Flourish
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Xylem
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Strategy
► Being without or almost without hope
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Commemorate
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles