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. Outrageous
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
2. Enthusiastic
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Stereotype
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The arrangement of events in time
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Vacillate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Decorum
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.