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
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
2. Analogy
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Random
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
4. Renaissance
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
5. Quandary
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd