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. Ozone
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Bizarre
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Jaunty
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Tranquility
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
5. Silhouette
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.