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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Tariff
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
2. Analogy
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
3. Marsupial
4. Voracious
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
5. Tundra
► A proportional part or share.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Being without or almost without hope
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