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. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
3. Tempo
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Random
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
5. Impertinent
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold