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. Despondent
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Being without or almost without hope
2. Stereotype
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
3. Ozone
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Mosaic
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. Recede
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.