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. Solstice
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
2. Mosaic
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Decorum
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
4. Nebula
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
5. Deduction
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
