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. Accentuate
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Sect
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Nebula
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
4. Tariff
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
5. Tranquility
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.