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. Accentuate
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Virtuoso
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
4. Vertebrate
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
5. Camouflage
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.