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. Formidable
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
2. Phloem
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Spectrum
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
4. Aspire
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Ultraviolet
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
