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. Silhouette
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
2. Bamboozle
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A proportional part or share.
3. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Despondent
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
5. Embargo
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation