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. Tempo
► To condescend to give or grant
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
2. Ellipse
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
3. Vaccine
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
4. Jovial
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
5. Immune
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
