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. Nuisance
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
2. Exult
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
3. Aspire
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Levee
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
5. Toxin
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A proportional part or share.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.