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. Virtuoso
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
2. Despondent
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
3. Sacrifice
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Random
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
5. Nebula
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.