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. Antibody
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Tranquility
► To condescend to give or grant
► The arrangement of events in time
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
3. Omnivore
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Phloem
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
5. Random
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief