TIE | The Los Angeles Times in Education

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. Quarantine

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► To condescend to give or grant

2. Light-Year

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

3. Guerrilla

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

► A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

4. Aspire

► Self-examination.

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► The arrangement of events in time

5. Renegade

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

Common Core State Standard
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.

PARLAY

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

PARLAY
DEFINITION: A single bet that links together two or more individual wagers	FOUND IN THE NEWS: Then comes the parlay attempt. ►The Key West Citizen, 01/05/2026

PARLAY

Words in the News Quiz5 Middle School Words

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words