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. Bamboozle
► Being without or almost without hope
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Guru
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Outrageous
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
4. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A proportional part or share.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
