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. Vaccine
► To condescend to give or grant
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Technique
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
3. Enthusiastic
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Chronology
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The arrangement of events in time
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
5. Vertebrate
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.