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. Vaccine
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
2. Formidable
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
3. Flourish
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The arrangement of events in time
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Light-Year
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
5. Metaphor
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
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