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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Sacrifice
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
2. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
3. Mosaic
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
4. Lichen
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
5. Omnivore
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.