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. Guerrilla
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
2. Strategy
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
3. Immune
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Plateau
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
5. Random
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.