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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Laconic
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Typhoon
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Lichen
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
5. Chronology
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The arrangement of events in time