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. Sect
► Being without or almost without hope
► A proportional part or share.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2. Exult
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
3. Outrageous
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
4. Omnivore
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
5. Repose
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
