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. Aspire
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
2. Immune
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
3. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
4. Yacht
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
5. Spectrum
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
