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. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
2. Bizarre
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Yacht
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
4. Recede
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
5. Hieroglyphic
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit