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
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Virtuoso
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Typhoon
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Guru
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.