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. Technique
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. Rainforest
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
3. Boycott
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
4. Pulverize
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Aspire
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
