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. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
2. Recede
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
3. Polygon
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Bamboozle
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
5. Bandolier
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To condescend to give or grant
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.