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. Heritage
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
2. Phloem
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To condescend to give or grant
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Maneuver
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
4. Parasite
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Exponent
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
