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
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
2. Outrageous
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
3. Solstice
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To condescend to give or grant
4. Omnivore
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To condescend to give or grant
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Silhouette
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
