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. Light-Year
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
2. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
3. Symbiosis
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
4. Ultraviolet
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Flourish
► To condescend to give or grant
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.