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. Outrageous
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
2. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
3. Impertinent
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Guerrilla
5. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
