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. Gargoyle
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
2. Tranquility
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
3. Random
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Hypocrisy
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Polygon
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.