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. Silhouette
► Being without or almost without hope
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
2. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
3. Exult
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Metaphor
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Cower
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.