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. Symbiosis
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
2. Divulge
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Typhoon
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
4. Light-Year
► Being without or almost without hope
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To condescend to give or grant
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
5. Boycott
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.