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. Symbiosis
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
2. Ozone
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Plateau
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
4. Vertebrate
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
5. Suffrage
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
