Resources for Bay Area
Teachers and Students
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. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Sacrifice
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
3. Protagonist
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Tsunami
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Fallacy
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace