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. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► The arrangement of events in time
2. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Quandary
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Hypocrisy
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Deduction
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
