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. Antibody
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Light-Year
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Sacrifice
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Bamboozle
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
5. Vaccine
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
