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. Embargo
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Sacrifice
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
3. Quarantine
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Gargoyle
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
5. Rainforest
► Being without or almost without hope