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
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Being without or almost without hope
2. Nuisance
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
3. Quandary
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
4. Exponent
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
5. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
