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. Gargoyle
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
2. Maneuver
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
3. Hieroglyphic
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Phloem
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
5. Deduction
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
