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. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
2. Guru
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Wretched
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Decorum
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The arrangement of events in time
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
