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
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Vacillate
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Lichen
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Levee
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
5. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
