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. Aspire
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
2. Protagonist
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
3. Ellipse
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
4. Recede
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
