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 phase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to it's 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. Enthusiastic
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
2. Technique
► To condescend to give or grant
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Aspire
► A proportional part or share.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
4. Mutation
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
5. Random
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.