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. Renegade
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
2. Immune
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
3. Omnivore
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Parasite
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
5. Decorum
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
