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. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
2. Hologram
3. Undulate
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Immune
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
5. Technique
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A proportional part or share.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
