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. Quarantine
► 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.
2. Exponent
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
3. Pulverize
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Tsunami
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Nuisance
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.