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. Deduction
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
2. Tempo
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
3. Strategy
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Vacillate
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Ozone
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.