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. Formidable
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Deduction
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
3. Quandary
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Metaphor
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Deign
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To condescend to give or grant
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.