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. Exult
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Lichen
► A proportional part or share.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
3. Chronology
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.