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. Fallacy
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
2. Ozone
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
3. Undulate
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
4. Salmonella
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Accentuate
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify