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. Strategy
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
2. Hypocrisy
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Yacht
► Being without or almost without hope
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
4. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
5. Quarantine
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
