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. Hypocrisy
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
2. Solstice
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
3. Fallacy
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Bizarre
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
5. Vertebrate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
