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. Mutation
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
2. Salmonella
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
3. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
4. Quota
► A proportional part or share.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
5. Gargoyle
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding