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. Tariff
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
2. Ozone
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
3. Symbiosis
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Nuisance
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
5. Cower
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
