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. Sect
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
2. Formidable
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
3. Exponent
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Metaphor
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Mosaic
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.