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. Gargoyle
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
2. Hieroglyphic
► Being without or almost without hope
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
3. Chronology
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Bizarre
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
5. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.