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. Delegate
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
2. Vaccine
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
3. Immune
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Undulate
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Yacht
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
