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. Ozone
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
2. Voracious
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
3. Xylem
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
4. Pulverize
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
5. Tsunami
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.