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. Fallacy
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Tumult
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
3. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
4. Unanimous
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Virtuoso
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.