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. Aspire
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Vacillate
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Quandary
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Toxin
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Labyrinth
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.