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. Embargo
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
2. Immune
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
3. Nocturnal
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
4. Wretched
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Mutation
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.