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. Fallacy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Being without or almost without hope
2. Strategy
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Gargoyle
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Jaunty
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
5. Plateau
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.