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. Accentuate
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Recede
► The arrangement of events in time
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
3. Impertinent
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► To condescend to give or grant
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
4. Hologram
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
5. Ellipse
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief