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. Maneuver
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
2. Silhouette
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
3. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
4. Tsunami
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
5. Bandolier
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.