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. Quota
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A proportional part or share.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
2. Introspection
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Dialogue
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
4. Protagonist
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
5. Tsunami
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► The arrangement of events in time
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
