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. Wretched
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
2. Zoology
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Being without or almost without hope
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
3. Omnivore
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The arrangement of events in time
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
4. Guru
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
5. Light-Year
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.