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. Vaccine
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
2. Enthusiastic
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
3. Levee
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
4. Recede
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
5. Vacillate
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.