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. Hologram
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
2. Mutation
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
3. Inference
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
4. Yacht
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
5. Protagonist
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night