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. Renaissance
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Tumult
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
3. Exponent
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
4. Vacillate
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Phloem
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.