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. Ellipse
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
2. Sacrifice
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Commemorate
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
4. Levee
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Antibody
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.