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
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
2. Deign
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To condescend to give or grant
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
3. Vertebrate
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
4. Hieroglyphic
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
5. Cower
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
