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. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
2. Omnivore
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
3. Symbiosis
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Jaunty
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
5. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.