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. Commemorate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
3. Suffrage
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
4. Quota
► A proportional part or share.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
5. Jaunty
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.