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. Commemorate
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
2. Xylem
► The arrangement of events in time
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Participle
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To condescend to give or grant
4. Random
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A proportional part or share.
5. Quandary
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.