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. Boisterous
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Omnivore
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
3. Despondent
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Decorum
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A proportional part or share.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
5. Antibody
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
