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. Exponent
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
2. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Stereotype
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
4. Parasite
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Random
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,