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. Mosaic
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
2. Immune
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
3. Symbiosis
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Vaccine
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Dialogue
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
