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. Gargoyle
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
2. Ultraviolet
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
3. Strategy
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
4. Omnivore
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Random
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.