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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
2. Light-Year
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
3. Protagonist
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
4. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.