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. Embargo
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Bamboozle
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
3. Repose
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Random
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Polygon
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding