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. Analogy
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Virtuoso
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
3. Tsunami
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
4. Alliteration
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
5. Jaunty
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► The arrangement of events in time
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace