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 grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
2. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
3. Nuisance
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Quandary
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
5. Decorum
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.