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. Rainforest
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Nuisance
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Chronology
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The arrangement of events in time
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
4. Inference
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
5. Symbiosis
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
