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. Lichen
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
2. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Metaphor
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
4. Quandary
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A proportional part or share.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Dialogue
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.