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. Renaissance
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Ellipse
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
3. Tranquility
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
4. Zoology
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Bamboozle
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
