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 phrase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to its 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. Random
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Formidable
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
3. Embargo
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
4. Renaissance
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Pulverize
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd