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. Pulverize
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
2. Accentuate
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
3. Symbiosis
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Analogy
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
5. Camouflage
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
