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. Vacillate
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
2. Boisterous
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
3. Rainforest
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
4. Stereotype
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A proportional part or share.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
5. Decorum
► The arrangement of events in time
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct