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. Flourish
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
2. Guerrilla
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Strategy
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Vacillate
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
5. Accentuate
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify