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
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
2. Guru
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Strategy
► To condescend to give or grant
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Impertinent
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Rainforest
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,