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. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
2. Bamboozle
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
3. Labyrinth
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Chronology
► The arrangement of events in time
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Aspire
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal