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. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A proportional part or share.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
2. Strategy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
3. Delegate
► Being without or almost without hope
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
4. Exult
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
5. Renegade
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation