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
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
2. Renaissance
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Laconic
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
4. Chronology
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The arrangement of events in time
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Levee
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.