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
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A proportional part or share.
► Being without or almost without hope
2. Technique
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Tsunami
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
4. Exponent
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
5. Divulge
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
