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. Introspection
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
2. Nocturnal
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
3. Jaunty
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
5. Light-Year
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.