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. Guerrilla
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
2. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Participle
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
4. Fallacy
► Being without or almost without hope
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
5. Toxin
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► 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.