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. Heritage
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
2. Pulverize
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A proportional part or share.
3. Jovial
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
4. Inference
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Spectrum
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
