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. Hypocrisy
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
2. Outrageous
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
3. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
4. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Exult
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates