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. Ultraviolet
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
2. Embargo
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
3. Despondent
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
4. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
5. Xylem
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
