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. Nuisance
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
2. Outrageous
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Lichen
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Quarantine
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
5. Stereotype
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night