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
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Pulverize
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Impertinent
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Marsupial
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. Boycott
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.