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. Aspire
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
2. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
3. Polygon
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Deign
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To condescend to give or grant
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Exponent
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.