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. Parasite
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Enthusiastic
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
3. Renegade
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Vaccine
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
