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. Quandary
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
2. Guerrilla
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
3. Commemorate
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
4. Tsunami
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
5. Guru
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.