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. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
2. Labyrinth
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Protagonist
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
4. Boycott
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
5. Bamboozle
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
