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. Despondent
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Being without or almost without hope
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
2. Aspire
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
3. Embargo
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
4. Deduction
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Analogy
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.