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. Tumult
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Typhoon
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Chronology
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Toxin
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
5. Alliteration
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
