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. Tsunami
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
2. Vertebrate
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Formidable
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Marsupial
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
5. Alliteration
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
