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. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Embargo
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
3. Solstice
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Antibody
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Dialogue
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative