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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. Parasite
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
2. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
3. Metaphor
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
4. Levee
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
5. Virtuoso
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
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