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. Renegade
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
2. Vertebrate
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
3. Malignant
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
4. Sect
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. Dialogue
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
