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. Gargoyle
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Aspire
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Stereotype
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Tranquility
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
5. Tariff
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct