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. Marsupial
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
2. Ozone
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A proportional part or share.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Heritage
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Fallacy
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
5. Laconic
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
