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. Pulverize
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
2. Solstice
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
3. Malignant
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
5. Quarantine
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.