Resources for Bay Area
Teachers and Students
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. Chronology
► The arrangement of events in time
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
2. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
3. Bizarre
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Vacillate
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A proportional part or share.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
5. Levee
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.