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. Antibody
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
2. Unanimous
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Tranquility
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
4. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Gargoyle
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.