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. Jovial
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
2. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
3. Despondent
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Aspire
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
5. Lichen
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► The arrangement of events in time
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
