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. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
3. Nebula
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
4. Embargo
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Renegade
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
