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. Cower
► The arrangement of events in time
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Virtuoso
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Salmonella
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Ozone
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
