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. Technique
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Immune
► Being without or almost without hope
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Vertebrate
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
4. Commemorate
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
5. Guru
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.