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
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Being without or almost without hope
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Mutation
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
3. Hologram
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
4. Tundra
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
5. Flourish
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
