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. Kilometer
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
2. Despondent
► Being without or almost without hope
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Vertebrate
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
5. Eclectic
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles