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. Heritage
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
2. Jovial
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Ultraviolet
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Metaphor
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.