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. Rainforest
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Accentuate
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
3. Maneuver
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Lichen
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Strategy
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.