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. Laconic
► The arrangement of events in time
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Dialogue
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Exult
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
4. Repose
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
5. Malignant
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.