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. Hypocrisy
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
2. Renaissance
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
3. Xylem
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
4. Divulge
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Tundra
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.