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. Deign
► To condescend to give or grant
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
2. Quarantine
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
3. Spectrum
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
4. Tariff
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A schedule of prices or fees.
5. Analogy
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
