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. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
2. Sacrifice
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
3. Spectrum
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
5. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.