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. Quota
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A proportional part or share.
2. Spectrum
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
3. Immune
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Despondent
► Being without or almost without hope
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Boycott
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.