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. Nocturnal
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A schedule of prices or fees.
2. Nuisance
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Virtuoso
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
4. Cower
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
5. Pulverize
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
