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. Boisterous
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A proportional part or share.
3. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Fallacy
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► To condescend to give or grant
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
5. Sect
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.