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. Salmonella
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A proportional part or share.
2. Pulverize
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
3. Metaphor
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
4. Stereotype
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
5. Strategy
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
