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. Mutation
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
2. Boisterous
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
3. Tumult
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Impertinent
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
5. Solstice
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
