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. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
2. Heritage
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Mosaic
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
4. Spectrum
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
5. Hieroglyphic
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To condescend to give or grant
