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. Camouflage
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
2. Quarantine
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
3. Malignant
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Symbiosis
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
5. Despondent
► Being without or almost without hope
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.