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. Dialogue
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
2. Technique
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The arrangement of events in time
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
3. Sacrifice
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
4. Quarantine
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Random
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Being without or almost without hope