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. Accentuate
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Xylem
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
3. Participle
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
4. Dialogue
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
5. Parasite
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A proportional part or share.
► The arrangement of events in time