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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Suffrage
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
2. Zoology
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Random
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
4. Bamboozle
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
5. Bizarre
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Being without or almost without hope
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd