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. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. Repose
► To condescend to give or grant
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
3. Vacillate
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Decorum
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
5. Marsupial
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
