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. Alliteration
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
2. Polygon
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The arrangement of events in time
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Bamboozle
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A proportional part or share.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
4. Aspire
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
5. Hypocrisy
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
