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. Nebula
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Renegade
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
3. Parasite
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
4. Deduction
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Sect
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation