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. Jovial
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
2. Marsupial
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Commemorate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
4. Recede
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
5. Quandary
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.