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. Exponent
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
2. Lichen
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Maneuver
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Antibody
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
5. Nocturnal
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.