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. Tundra
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
2. Boycott
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
3. Cower
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
4. Deign
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► To condescend to give or grant
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Omnivore
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
