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. Jovial
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Deign
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To condescend to give or grant
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Vertebrate
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
4. Plateau
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
5. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
