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. Dialogue
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
2. Renaissance
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
3. Deign
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To condescend to give or grant
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Vaccine
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
