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. Technique
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
2. Deduction
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
3. Rainforest
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
4. Camouflage
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Mosaic
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates