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. Tundra
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
3. Labyrinth
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Cower
► To condescend to give or grant
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.