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. Kilometer
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
2. Strategy
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
3. Chronology
► The arrangement of events in time
► Being without or almost without hope
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
4. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Nebula
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
