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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Guerrilla
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
2. Repose
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Accentuate
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
4. Vertebrate
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
5. Symbiosis
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.