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. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
3. Antibody
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
4. Polygon
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Deign
► To condescend to give or grant
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
