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. Chronology
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► The arrangement of events in time
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
2. Vacillate
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
3. Yacht
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Ellipse
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Boisterous
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline