
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. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Being without or almost without hope
2. Deduction
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
3. Camouflage
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Salmonella
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Xylem
► A proportional part or share.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
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