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. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Levee
► Being without or almost without hope
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Yacht
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Gargoyle
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
5. Bamboozle
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd