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. Nebula
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
2. Symbiosis
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Polygon
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To condescend to give or grant
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Pulverize
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).