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
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Bandolier
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
3. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
4. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.