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. Boycott
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Despondent
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Quarantine
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
4. Formidable
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
5. Vertebrate
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
