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. Wretched
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
2. Undulate
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
3. Repose
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
4. Omnivore
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
5. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
