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. Renaissance
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
2. Random
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Tsunami
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Introspection
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
5. Levee
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
