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. Divulge
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
2. Impertinent
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
3. Maneuver
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
4. Parasite
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Lichen
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,