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. Zoology
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
2. Guru
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
3. Yacht
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Strategy
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
5. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The arrangement of events in time