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. Symbiosis
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
2. Recede
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Tsunami
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
4. Strategy
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Quota
► A proportional part or share.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.