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 proportional part or share.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
2. Light-Year
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Immune
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Rainforest
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
5. Hieroglyphic
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To condescend to give or grant
