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. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Tariff
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A schedule of prices or fees.
3. Nebula
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Typhoon
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Laconic
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
