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. Analogy
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The arrangement of events in time
2. Wretched
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
3. Flourish
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Toxin
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
5. Fallacy
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A proportional part or share.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
