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. Flourish
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
2. Lichen
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
3. Parasite
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Bandolier
► Being without or almost without hope
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
