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. Symbiosis
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Voracious
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A proportional part or share.
3. Despondent
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Being without or almost without hope
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
4. Camouflage
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
5. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
