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. Maneuver
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
2. Sacrifice
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The arrangement of events in time
3. Exponent
► The arrangement of events in time
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
4. Protagonist
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
5. Hologram
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.