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. Inference
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
2. Tranquility
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
3. Xylem
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Accentuate
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
