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. Deduction
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A proportional part or share.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. Deign
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Alliteration
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Being without or almost without hope
5. Nocturnal
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.