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. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► The arrangement of events in time
2. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
3. Recede
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
4. Typhoon
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Tsunami
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.