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. Bandolier
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
2. Metaphor
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
3. Hieroglyphic
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
4. Vacillate
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► To condescend to give or grant
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal