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
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Guru
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
4. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Impertinent
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold