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. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
2. Silhouette
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
3. Light-Year
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
4. Renegade
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
5. Wretched
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding