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
► Being without or almost without hope
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
2. Antibody
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
3. Metaphor
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
4. Suffrage
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Labyrinth
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.