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. Jovial
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
2. Spectrum
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
3. Symbiosis
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Mutation
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
5. Enthusiastic
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm