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. Deign
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To condescend to give or grant
2. Typhoon
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
3. Despondent
► Being without or almost without hope
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
4. Exponent
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
5. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.