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. Jovial
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
2. Deduction
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
4. Exult
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
5. Symbiosis
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.