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. Phloem
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
2. Maneuver
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Enthusiastic
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The arrangement of events in time
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
4. Exult
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A proportional part or share.
5. Symbiosis
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To condescend to give or grant
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.