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. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To condescend to give or grant
2. Enthusiastic
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
3. Despondent
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
5. Labyrinth
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.