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. Spectrum
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
2. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Enthusiastic
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
4. Plateau
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Jaunty
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,