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. Embargo
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
2. Labyrinth
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
3. Virtuoso
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
4. Nebula
5. Yacht
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
