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. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
2. Light-Year
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Renaissance
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
4. Quota
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A proportional part or share.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
5. Parasite
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
