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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Gargoyle
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2. Nuisance
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
3. Exult
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
4. Divulge
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
5. Dialogue
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
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