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. Cower
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
2. Technique
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Dialogue
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
4. Decorum
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
5. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.