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. Dialogue
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2. Undulate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Chronology
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Renaissance
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Renegade
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
