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. Light-Year
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Stereotype
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Tempo
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
4. Vacillate
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
5. Zoology
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
