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. Toxin
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Immune
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Wretched
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Bamboozle
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
5. Omnivore
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates