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. Omnivore
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To condescend to give or grant
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
2. Jaunty
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Inference
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
4. Undulate
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The arrangement of events in time
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Introspection
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
