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
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To condescend to give or grant
2. Metaphor
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Hologram
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
4. Divulge
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
5. Malignant
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A schedule of prices or fees.