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. Dialogue
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
2. Jovial
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
3. Exult
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
4. Exponent
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Random
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.