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
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
2. Spectrum
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
3. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
4. Suffrage
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Decorum
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
