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. Yacht
► The arrangement of events in time
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Undulate
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Aspire
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
5. Impertinent
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates