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. Nocturnal
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
2. Gargoyle
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Silhouette
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
4. Vertebrate
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
5. Enthusiastic
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
