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. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Immune
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
3. Xylem
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
4. Fallacy
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
5. Quota
► A proportional part or share.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.