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. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. Despondent
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Vaccine
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Omnivore
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Quandary
► The arrangement of events in time
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.