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. Accentuate
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Inference
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
3. Plateau
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
4. Strategy
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
5. Levee
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Being without or almost without hope