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. Polygon
► The arrangement of events in time
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
2. Nuisance
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
3. Light-Year
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A proportional part or share.
4. Phloem
► A proportional part or share.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Jaunty
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder