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. Fallacy
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Deduction
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
3. Participle
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
4. Boycott
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
5. Typhoon
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.