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. Recede
► To condescend to give or grant
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
2. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
3. Nuisance
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
4. Strategy
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
5. Ozone
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.