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. Nebula
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Being without or almost without hope
2. Repose
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
3. Laconic
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
4. Tumult
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. Renaissance
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
