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. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
3. Nebula
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
5. Mutation
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A schedule of prices or fees.