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. Toxin
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Heritage
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
4. Jaunty
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
5. Nebula
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.