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. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
2. Polygon
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
3. Hieroglyphic
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
4. Yacht
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
5. Silhouette
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.