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. Nebula
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Being without or almost without hope
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
2. Hologram
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
3. Mutation
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Recede
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
5. Embargo
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation