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
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Being without or almost without hope
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
2. Decorum
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
3. Bamboozle
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
4. Symbiosis
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
5. Sacrifice
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
