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
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Being without or almost without hope
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Exponent
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
3. Maneuver
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
4. Impertinent
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Metaphor
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
