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. Impertinent
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Silhouette
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Yacht
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
4. Tundra
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
5. Exponent
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.