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. Bizarre
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
2. Wretched
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
3. Bamboozle
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Being without or almost without hope
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► To condescend to give or grant
4. Flourish
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.