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. Sect
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
2. Typhoon
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
3. Plateau
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
4. Embargo
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The arrangement of events in time
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Deign
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To condescend to give or grant
