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. Parasite
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
2. Vertebrate
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
3. Zoology
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
4. Undulate
► The arrangement of events in time
► To condescend to give or grant
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Toxin
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
