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. Recede
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Maneuver
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Symbiosis
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
4. Toxin
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Technique
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
