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. Maneuver
► To condescend to give or grant
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
2. Vertebrate
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
3. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
4. Polygon
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
5. Stereotype
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.