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. Eclectic
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
2. Wretched
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Despondent
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Undulate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Suffrage
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To condescend to give or grant
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
