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
► A proportional part or share.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Renaissance
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Zoology
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Despondent
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► The arrangement of events in time
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Being without or almost without hope
5. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant