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. Vertebrate
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Tumult
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
3. Quandary
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Salmonella
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
5. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.