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. Commemorate
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
2. Virtuoso
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
3. Renaissance
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
4. Toxin
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
5. Accentuate
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.