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. Random
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
2. Nuisance
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
3. Guru
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
4. Formidable
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Guerrilla
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night