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. Technique
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
2. Random
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Despondent
► To condescend to give or grant
► Being without or almost without hope
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
4. Vaccine
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
5. Wretched
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
