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
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The arrangement of events in time
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. Flourish
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
3. Alliteration
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
5. Sacrifice
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.