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. Typhoon
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
2. Nocturnal
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Being without or almost without hope
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
3. Sect
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
5. Repose
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative