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. Mutation
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
2. Unanimous
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
3. Renegade
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Protagonist
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
5. Divulge
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
