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. Parasite
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
2. Solstice
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Levee
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Tariff
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
5. Zoology
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
