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. Vaccine
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
2. Nocturnal
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
3. Immune
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Inference
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
5. Chronology
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The arrangement of events in time
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