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. Despondent
► Being without or almost without hope
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Nebula
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
3. Immune
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A proportional part or share.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Aspire
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.