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. Quarantine
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
2. Wretched
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
3. Dialogue
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Pulverize
► The arrangement of events in time
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
