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. Random
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
2. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Light-Year
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
4. Eclectic
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Strategy
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates