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. Maneuver
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
2. Inference
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Polygon
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
4. Voracious
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
5. Strategy
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.