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. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. Levee
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Cower
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
4. Immune
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. Boisterous
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
