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. Deduction
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
2. Boisterous
► The arrangement of events in time
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
3. Analogy
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Malignant
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
5. Vertebrate
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace