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. Toxin
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Renegade
► Being without or almost without hope
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
3. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
4. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
5. Bamboozle
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.