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. Eclectic
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
2. Toxin
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
3. Symbiosis
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
4. Tariff
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
5. Tsunami
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.