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. Technique
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The arrangement of events in time
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Exponent
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Mosaic
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
4. Tsunami
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.