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. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A proportional part or share.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
2. Vacillate
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
3. Zoology
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Labyrinth
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
5. Exponent
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.