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. Quarantine
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Ellipse
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
3. Tariff
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
4. Gargoyle
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Renegade
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.