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. Decorum
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Ellipse
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
3. Dialogue
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
4. Random
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Divulge
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd