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. Random
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
2. Repose
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
3. Marsupial
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
4. Zoology
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
5. Plateau
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A schedule of prices or fees.