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
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
2. Formidable
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
3. Renegade
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
4. Light-Year
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
5. Nebula
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony