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. Deduction
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Strategy
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
3. Symbiosis
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
4. Bizarre
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
5. Virtuoso
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.